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Fully revealing the diabolically beautiful schemes of GABRIEL YARED’s Oscar-nominated THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY
I’m thrilled to follow up my liner notes to Music Box Records’ release of the Oscar-nominated collaboration between filmmaker Anthony Minghella, composer Gabriel Yared and editor Walter Murch on Cold Mountain with the label’s astounding two-cd release of their Academy Award nominated collaboration of the piece of beautifully diabolical work that is THE TALENTED MR.…
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FATIMA AL QADIRI creates the image conscious scores of SKINCARE and SEEKING MAVIS BEACON
Fatima Al Qadiri (Photo by James Kelly) One of the most unique composers on the world soundtrack stage who’s bringing an eclectic, indie electronic sound to the film medium is Fatima Al Qadiri. Born in Senegal, raised in Kuwait and infused with creativity by diplomat-writer father and artist mother, Al Qadiri went to college in…
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STEFFEN THUM on the triple threat of SLINGSHOT, STOCKHOLM BLOODBATH and BETRAYAL
Three times is the striking charm for composer Steffen Thum, even when it’s men running amuck in past and future worlds, with the present Scottish woods conjured by Thum’s oft-composing partner Max Aruj. Yet all three scores are impressive in just how vastly different they sound. While it’s dangerous enough to use Jupiter’s gravity as…
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FREDERIK WIEDMANN shines his Bat Signal on the CAPED CRUSADER for a new Film Music Live!
Put on the mantle of a new Film Music Live videocast as FREDERIK WIEDMANN (Star Trek Picard S3, The Hills Run Red, The Green Lantern) talks about his long musical journey with The Dark Knight that now shines like never before with his scoring for Amazon Prime’s BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER! It’s an examination of a…
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KATHRYN BOSTIC dines on the emotionally tasty score of THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT
Emmy-nominated for American Masters’ “Amy Tan Unintended Memoir,” the notably elegant Bostic has created soundtracks that traverse a wide range of films, shows and documentaries that often deal with womenhood and the black experience. She’s given musical voice to the acclaimed poet “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,” disturbingly evoked a warden faced with…
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Returning to scene of the liner note crime with a wonderfully bigger dastardly scene for CHARLES FOX’s FOUL PLAY!
It’s been a year of getting to cover absolute grails thanks to Intrada Records, first liner noting the full expanse of Danny Elfman’s Nightbreed, and now being able to take a second shot at revisiting the liner note scene of the crime with FOUL PLAY. Long one of the my favorite suspense comedies and scores,…
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BLAIR MOWAT has the musical force of personality with DR. JEKYLL and NOLLY
One is the mistress of her soap opera domain, marching to a delightfully syncopated “toy band” score. The other is the epitome of the two faces of good and evil, raging to a marvelously diabolical, full-blooded horror-comedy score. Both soundtracks are united by one dynamically fresh scoring voice from across the pond steadily making his…
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LOGAN NELSON finds the musical heart in the LOST TAPES of ELIZABETH TAYLOR
From “Faye” to “Rock Hudson: All the Heaven Allowed” old school Hollywood documentary star power is having its streaming moment on Max. But no Diva can compare to Elizabeth Taylor in putting on the service’s triple crown for their lustrously done, thorn-and-all valentines. But nothing compares to the public mania, Vatican fist-shaking and paparazzi-creating tabloid…
